Bolivian Artist Liliana Zapata Grabs the “JUSTMAG Premio Joven” Award

JUSTMAD 5 clings to its commitment to supporting these awards that recognize those who get things done the hard way: the youngest and emerging artists who, even in times of crises, can find the sponsorship they need to bankroll their projects. That’s the reason behind the ART FAIRS Award that went to Philip Topolovac, from the Berlin gallery Invaliden 1, who received 2,000 euros and the JUSTMAG PREMIO JOVEN Award, a dream come true thanks to the matchless collaboration of the MUSTANG Company and the MUSTANG ART GALLERY in Alicante. Now in its third year, the prize is up to 4,000 euros for the purchase of the artist’s work at Nube Gallery in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

JUSTMAG also gives the possibility of exposing at the MAG Hall all thru 2015. The jury is made up of Guillermo Espinosa, director of JUSTMAD5, Andrea Pacheco, commissioner of the “Just Residence” program, and Juan Fuster, director of the Mustang Art Gallery. Four other artists have also been chosen and mentioned for their interesting works. They are Ian Welter, from the Louis 21 Gallery in Palma de Majorca, Julia Panades from Fran Reus, also in Palma de Majorca, Theo Firmo from the Javier Silva de Valladolid Gallery, and Dalila Gonçalves from Kubikgallery in Oporto.

Liliana Zapata was born in 1985 in Bolivia and was formed as an artist at the “Hernando Siles” National Academy of Fine Arts. Her paper sculptures have been hyped. She has just finished an artistic residence at Torre Don Beltrán de la Cueva, in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria, and in 2008 she was selected to attend International Exchange with École Superiéure dex Beaux-Arts Le Mans. She has attended workshops with national and international artists in an effort to better understand and cater to their needs in terms of sculpturing and contemporary arts. She defines her own work as “an obsession for the handling of spaces (copying, folding, unfolding, dovetailing, emptying) and for the relationship, experimentation and body action in terms of those spaces. I’m interested in their physical and spiritual contents.”